Gene Luen Yang’s Reading Without Walls initiative is a three-pronged reading challenge meant to encourage kids to break out of their comfort zones and read something they might not normally try. Read More

On this episode, we talk to Gene Luen Yang about his Reading Without Walls initiative, getting more kids and families into libraries, writing outside of your lived experiences, working through rejection, and combating gendered labels and stereotypes when it comes to books. Read More

On this episode, we talk to Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi about ‘The Dam Keeper’ and ‘Moom,’ the importance of music in Tonko House’s storytelling, The Dam Keeper Educational Project, and the Totoro Forest Project. Read More

Bats: these nocturnal mammals are under appreciated and misunderstood. In this new graphic novel from the Science Comics series for grade-school, learn about these necessary pollinators and insect eaters from around the world. Read More

This year, we here at GeekDad thought we might ask advice from some folks who have seen more than a few holiday seasons come and go (and come and go, and come and go). We asked the immortal Greek Gods what books they might recommend for your young readers. Read More

10 years ago, a new publishing company known as First Second Books published a comic book called ‘American Born Chinese’ by Gene Luen Yang. Since then, First Second and Yang have both continued to create amazing comics and rack up a lot of achievements. Read More

Tony Cliff’s Delilah Dirk is really nothing short of some of the most fun “globe-trotting, torch-swinging, tomb-raiding, swash-buckling traditional adventures” you can have on the printed page. And even better? It’s coming to the big screen soon! Huzzah! Read More

This week, we’re thrilled to have Faith Erin Hicks on the show! Faith is an Eisner Award-winning author and illustrator whose newest book, ‘The Nameless City,’ comes out from First Second Books today! What are you waiting for? Go grab your copy! Read More

To celebrate their 10th anniversary, we present to you our list of Essential First Second books. I tried to do the impossible–choose one title from each year–and I was mostly able to do just that (with the exception of a couple ties). Read More

First Second Books recently acquired Drew Weing’s amazing ‘The Creepy Casefiles of Margo Maloo’ (which updates weekly online) for a series of books, and the first is scheduled to come out in September 2016. We recently caught up with Drew to chat about his process, taking ‘Margo’ to First Second, and monster hunters. Read More

Jay Hosler is a biology professor and graphic novelist—definitely a geek dad himself. He’s on a blog tour now, with fascinating insect facts and fun beetle art on each stop. Today he’s visiting GeekDad, with a little bit more about Ma’dog, a tiger beetle. Read More

Here’s an interview with the creative team behind ‘Last Man’: Balak, Michaël Sanlaville, and Bastien Vivès. The first book in the series, ‘The Stranger,’ focuses on a gladiatorial contest–the Games–in what seems to be a medieval world in which magic is not only possible but also the very soul of the Games. Teams compete and wield elemental powers against one another in the ring (think ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ meets Ultimate Fighting). Read More

GeekDad interviews Robert Kondo and Daisuke (Dice) Tsutsumi, directors of the Academy Award-nominated short ‘The Dam Keeper’ and creators of the upcoming graphic novels that will expand on that story and its characters. Read More